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Egypt’s Specialized Presidential Council for Education and Scientific Research and Springer Nature have announced the launch of a 5 year national access agreement for Springer Nature content and services and the full sponsorship of an Arabic online version of Scientific American. The range of services made available to the academic community of Egypt, as well as the rest of the population, by the recently formed Council includes the provision of national level access to the majority of Springer Nature publications, including journals, eBooks, and digital archives.More

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HIMSS Middle East, in collaboration with STM publisher Elsevier, has announced the finalists for the HIMSS-Elsevier Digital Healthcare Awards. Winners will be announced on December 9 at Hyatt Regency Dubai Creek Heights during the Inaugural HIMSS Middle East UAE eHealth Week. For the past three years, HIMSS and Elsevier have collaborated to bring this Awards program to the Asia Pacific region. For the first time, the Awards will be going global to the Middle East and Europe.More

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Dr. Lee H. Latimer, head of chemistry at NeurOp Inc., has been elected director-at-large of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world’s largest scientific society. He will begin his three-year term on the board Jan. 1, 2016.More

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EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and Bielefeld University in Germany have announced a partnership as a result of which more than 80 million documents from more than 3,800 sources are now searchable via EBSCO Discovery ServiceTM (EDS). The agreement enables Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE), a multidisciplinary database operated by Bielefeld University Library, to be indexed in EDS.More

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The American Psychological Association has indexed its 4 millionth record in its PsycINFO® database of scholarly psychology literature. This achievement is the result of over eight decades of detailed abstracting and indexing of international literature in the field of psychology and its related disciplines.More

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The CLOCKSS Archive has partnered with Emerald Group Publishing to preserve their ejournals and ebooks in CLOCKSS’s geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries worldwide. This action provides for content to be freely available to everyone after a “trigger event” and ensures an author’s work will be maximally accessible and useful over time.More

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Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a global licensing and content solutions organization, has announced that former Google Data Architect Boris Vulikh has joined as Director, Data Engineering. Based in Danvers, Vulikh leads a global team responsible for Master Data Management, Data Warehousing and Data Marts, and Business Intelligence and Analytics.More

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The National Diversity in Libraries Conference (NDLC ’16), cosponsored by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Library and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), will take place on the UCLA campus August 10-13, 2016. The NDLC ’16 Program Committee has extended the deadline for presentation proposals that address the conference’s theme of ‘Bridges to Inclusion’ highlighting issues related to diversity and inclusion that affect staff, users, and institutions in the library, archive, and museum (LAM) fields.More

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